Old stuff from cellar

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Kay Bixler

Kay Bixler
Checking in some bottles that mostly should have been drunk years ago.

1994 Meyney, Saint-Estphe is prudish. Tight with not much fruit, just showing old. This wine was lovely in its youth and we enjoyed many bottles so no harm done.

1996 Meyney is still juicy and young with a whiff of horse barn, fine tannin and soft plum fruit. Drink and hold. Both these Bordeaux were about $15 back in the day and we drank a ton!

1995 Pierre-Bisa Anjou Gamay really should have been opened 15 years ago but, to my surprise, this one showed well. Still rustic and tar scented with some gamey fruit notes too. Previous bottles had not been so good and of course half of them were corked.

1997 Pepiere, Muscadet Sur Lie Cuvée Buster, last bottle of this one. Shower curtain dominates the nose with some pine and lemon flavors. Certainly over the hill. This had the blue cork thing with nearly half the cork affected if that means anything.

Next up, '99 Loire . . .
 
Thanks for the note on the 1997 Buster, though it's disappointing as I still have 4 left. I need to dig one out and try it soon. How has your experience been with the 1997 Clos des Briords? I've had good luck with it in recent years, much more so than the 2000.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Will there be a '98 Moelleux report, Kay?
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Not from my cellar. Might have some Pinon but that's about all.
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That's because Peter Finkelstein cornered the market.

Man, it's a crying shame when there's no one left around to remember one of the greatest wine threads ever.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Link?
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I'm assuming it's lost in time on the WLDG as there was no TN in front of it. If it wasn't lost on the WLDG, it was lost on Therapy.
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It was on WLDG. Mr. Finkelstein never migrated to Therapy.
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Maybe Coad saved it? Every now and then at a jeebus he mentions that he's saved a thread from yesteryear. Would love to see it again. That, the basement and the Moet Nectar thread.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
OK, I'll chomp, who is Oleg Finkelstein?
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Oleg Olovyannikov, affectionately known as Oleg O, was one of the original members of the NY group that got together from the WLDG. Peter Finkelstein was Dressner's alter ego.
 
Meyney is a wine I haven't had in awhile, but it was cheerful cheapish Bordeaux there in the late 90s.

I was just becoming a winegeek when the 94s were hitting the shelves "BEST VINTAGE IN YEARS!!" so I have a lot of them. Am uncertain when, if ever, to open them up.
 
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